The FCC reverses its former position on EAS text-to-speech, permitting stations to begin using it today (May 7, 2012).\u00a0 The FCC’s main issue with Text To Speech (TTS) was that it may not render the text accurate enough to be understood, especially in emergencies.\u00a0 This can lead to confusing messages and defeat the purpose of EAS altogether.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have played around with some text-to-speech software and indeed it can mangle words, mispronounce punctuation as a part of the sentence structure, mumble, etc.\u00a0 Further, as I have said before, listening to some robo voice is very impersonal.\u00a0 But, I suppose that is the point, isn’t it; some big government agency computers generate messages that no one person is really responsible for.\u00a0 Bureaucratic paradise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The FCC reverses its former position on EAS text-to-speech, permitting stations to begin using it today (May 7, 2012).\u00a0 The FCC’s main issue with Text To Speech (TTS) was that it may not render the text accurate enough to be understood, especially in emergencies.\u00a0 This can lead to confusing messages and defeat the purpose of … Continue reading EAS text to speech permitted, not required<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[41,300,228],"class_list":["post-4986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fcc","tag-eas","tag-fcc","tag-fema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11606,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4986\/revisions\/11606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.engineeringradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}